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UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

I-IUGO E. IIEMPE, OE OIIIOAGO, ILLINOIS.

SATO'HEL.

sPEoIFIoATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. cedar/'0, dated october 23, ioo.

Application tiled July 30, 1900.

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-Y

Be it known that I, HUGO B. HEI/IPE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Satchels, of which the followingis a specificatiomand which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings,forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to the construction of satchels or hand-bags, and has for its objects the simplification and strengthening of the article and the cheapening of the cost of manufacture, a further object being to increase the durability by a better disposition of the material and by so Alocating the seams as to avoid wear.

The invention consists in the peculiar form of the leather covering for the satchel and the arrangement of its seams 'and stiffening material, all as hereinafter fully described and as shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Y Figure 1 is an end elevation of a satchel of the type known to the trade as the cabin satchel. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan View of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail plan section on the line 4'4 of Fig. l. Fig. 5 is an end view of a bag known to the trade as the ladies satchel, and Fig. G is a bottom plan View of the same.

As satchels have ordinarily been constructed the leather cover has been made of a number of pieces-one for each of the ends, one for each of the sides, and one for the bottomthe several pieces being joined at the corners of the bag and at the margins of the bottom. This form of construction has necessitated the cutting of the stiffening material in similar shapes, so that the corners have been pe-V culiarly weak and there has been great tendency of the walls to collapse after short usage. A further disadvantage found in the construction referred to arises from-the fact that the seams are located at the angles, the` points of greatest wear, and after a short time the stitches become broken and the seams open. An eifort has been made to avoid the location of seams at the angles by forming the cover of a single piece; but this effort was not successful, for the reason that the seams were necessarily located at the ends of the V.at I7.

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bottom andthe construction was open to the further verypractical difficulty that it is almost impossible to secure clear leather of suf- .iicient size to make anything but the smaller bags. Neither did this construction admit of the insertion of stiffening used in the larger bags without forming the joints of the latter at the corners.

In the drawings of this application the sides of the satchel, whether the bag be of large size, as shown in Figs. 1 to 4, or Of small size, such as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, are made of two pieces 10 and l1, cut to suitable shape that they may be joined or searned together at the ends of the bag, as shown at 12 and 13, and their lower edges will underlap its bottom 14, as shown at 15, beingl mitered at the corners, as shown at 16, and stitched to the bottom 14 along their edges and some distance from the edges of the bottom, as shown In the larger form of satchel it is customary to use stiffening for the side and end Walls, as shown at 18, and in the satchel herein shown and described this stiffening material may consist of two'pieces only, one of which is shown at 18 in Fig. 4, each of these pieces extending from midway of one end ofthe satchel to midway of the other-that is to say, from the seam 12 to the seam 13and being bent at the vertical corners of the bag, as shown at 19. The stilfening material 18 is secured to the leather cover in any suitable manner, as by the use of cement.

The usual lining may be fitted within the satchel, as shown at 20, and as shown presents no novel features. The bottom of the satchel may be armed with studs, as 2l which formfeet upon which it may rest, and the upper framework may be made of any desired form.

By the construction described but three pieces are required in forming the out-crease, and yet each is comparatively small, so that unless the satchel is of very large size they may be cut from small and consequently comparatively-cheap pieces of leather.' The location of the seams at the angles of the bag is entirely Obviated, and the stiffening material is of such form and so disposed that there are no joints in it at the vertical angles of the bag, so that their strength is very materially increased.

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I claim as my invention- 1. A Satchel having the side walls of its outer casing formed of two pieces seamed together only at the ends of the bag and intermediate of its side Corners, and each under lapping the bottom of the bag, and being secured thereto at a distance from its side and end edges.

2. A Satchel having the side Walls of its outer casing formed of two pieces seamed t0- gather only at the ends of the bag and interl mediate of its side corners, and each nnde' Etendingfrom one vertical seam thereof to the other.

HUG() B. HEMPE. Witnesses:

LOUIS K. GILLsoN, E. M. KLATCHER. 

